Port Chicago, CA, Explosion 1944
Article from US Naval Historical Center, connected to Chicago Port Munity
Children of the Camps: the Japanese American WWII internment camp experience
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of the Japanese
Photographs of the location from famous photographer
Comparative Analysis -- Internment Camps
The comparative analysis of the facilities provided the internees and the treatment accorded them by the American operated Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Texas, USA) with that offered by the Japanese operated Civilian Assembly Center at Weihsien, Shantung, China, during World War II
Produce For Victory: Posters for the Homefront
This exhibition was organized by the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War
Interviews with Rutgers University alumni and/or New Jersey residents who served on the home front and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War
World War II Conscientious Objectors Project
Many issues studies from the University of Illinois at Springfield Oral History Collection
The Political Dr. Seuss
Examines Seuss's political views shaped by World War II and illustrated in his cartoons.
Dr. Seuss Went to War
Examines Seuss's political views shaped by World War II and illustrated in his cartoons.
GI -- World War II images
This collection of photographs from the National Archives provides a pictoral history of a select group of events from World War II
Fly Girls PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II . Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.
Vogue Picture Records, 1946-1947.
Approximately seventy-four titles were produced by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan from May 1946 through August 1947 which are highly prized by collectors for their colorful designs. Images from 12 discs are reproduced here
Map of Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Personal and official photographs, letters and diaries, transcribed oral histories, art. Be sure to check lesson plans
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution
Interactive galleries that combine music, text and first-person accounts. Based on 800 artifacts in Smithsonian collection
Japanese American Internment - Smithsonian Education
Online exhibit of materials from the Smithsonian Institute
Internment of German Americans in the United States during World War II
This web site contains research materials on the wartime treatment of U.S. and Latin Americans of German ancestry for serious researchers, students and persons seeking general information
Camp Harmony Exhibit
This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony
Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese - Newspaper Articles
Excellent collection of newspaper articles in San Francisco newspapers from the spring of 1942
Rabbit in the Moon
Companion site to PBS documentary. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history
Japanese in Turn of the Century America
Images, political cartoons and songs from the University of Indiana
Chronology of the Japanese American Internment
Timeline of events
ALIC - Japanese Relocation and Internment
US National Archives directory of resources
Korematsu v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court Case Summary & Oral Argument
Court rules on the curfew, although most believe it was ruling on the interment
Home Affairs: HOW TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE JAPS - TIME
Excerpt from Time magazine in December of 1941 demonstrates the American reaction to Pearl Harbor.
1940s Fashion History. 1940-1950 Costume History Utility to New Look
ooks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural and moral values. Homelife and politics also contribute to lifestyle trends, which in turn influence the clothes we wear. These are the changes that make any era of society special in relation to the study of the costume of a period
A Biography of America: World War II
Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents from Annenberg Media
World War I and II War Posters and Postcards
Over 5,000 postcards and posters that are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, international welfare organizations, prices and rationing, transportation, health and safety, labor organizations, films and theatre, food production, sports and leisure, recruiting of women in military and non-combatant organizations, special events, anti-war movements, and other topics